Rudo black
Rudo Schwarz (born October 29, 1906 in Deutsch Gabel , † August 9, 1983 in Heppenheim ) was a German painter, draftsman, photographer and author who became known as an "artist soldier".
life and work
Rudo Schwarz was born as the youngest child of tax administrators Julius Schwarz and Anna Schwarz. After graduating from high school in 1925, he completed an apprenticeship as a photographer and took painting and drawing lessons at the Hauptmann-Sommer private academy in Bohemian-Leipa . In 1938 he married Hertha (née Förster).
As a soldier in the German Wehrmacht, he was deployed in Germany, then in Poland, Greece, Crete and Yugoslavia. In Crete he created two diaries of over 500 pages which, in addition to describing the country and people, also contain around 300 drawings and watercolors. The diary also contains many true-to-scale documentation of excavation sites, wall reliefs and finds from Minoan palaces and other cultural assets. There are also two albums with around 500 photos from this period.
In 1945 he was captured by Yugoslavia as a prisoner of war for four years, with over 100 large-format works that have been lost since then. A diary was also created here, despite forced labor in road construction and mining. In 1949 he returned from captivity and settled in Laudenbach near Heidelberg as a landscape and portrait painter. He completed his last picture in May 1983, three months before his death.
The catalog raisonné is in the Weinheim City Museum . The Kreta Diaries I + II and the Crete Photo Diaries I + II as well as 18 paintings were donated to the Heraklion Historical Museum / Crete in 2008 and today form the “Rudo Schwarz Archive” there.
Exhibitions
- 1950: Heidelberg City Library : A painter sees Crete
- 1978: Darmstadt city library: Rudo Schwarz
- 1989: Historic town hall, Heppenheim: Rudo Schwarz, his work
- 2006: Weinheim Museum : Rudo Schwarz on his 100th birthday
- 2010: Heraklion Historical Museum , Crete: Rudo Schwarz an artist in uniform
- 2011: Benaki Museum , Athens: Rudo Schwarz an artist in uniform
- 2015: ((Town Hall Laudenbach)): "Rudo Schwarz A Laudenbach artist on the move"
Publications
- From Mainz to Crete in the winter of 1942-43: The travel diary of the "artist soldier" Rudo Schwarz. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-447-10304-6 .
- Occupied Crete 1941 - 1945. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-447-10186-8 .
- Kreta diary. Heraklion Historical Museum, Crete 2012, ISBN 978-960-9480-06-2 .
- Rudo Schwarz an artist in uniform. Heraklion Historical Museum, Crete 2010, ISBN 978-9-60-9480-00-0 .
- Heidelberg - after oil paintings by Rudo Schwarz . Texts: Bernd Boehle. Brausdruck, Heidelberg 1985.
Awards and honors
- A Rudo-Schwarz-Straße was named after the artist in Heppenheim in 1996.
- The grave of the painter Rudo Schwarz will be preserved in the long term as a grave of honor at the Laudenbach cemetery according to a council resolution of February 4, 2009.
- On October 29, 2006, the community of Laudenbach honored the artist with a commemoration for his 100th birthday at his grave.
Press publications and television reports
- February 28, 1989: Südhessische Post Heppenheim "Rudo Schwarz special exhibition"
- October 13, 2006: Weinheimer Nachrichten “Memory of Painter and Artist Soldier”
- October 30, 2006: Weinheimer Nachrichten “Commemoration Cemetery Laudenbach”
- October 23, 2008: TV broadcast of the donation to the Heraklion Historical Museum / Crete
- October 23, 2008: Press articles in Paris Heraklion and other newspapers about the donation
- May 4, 2010: TV broadcast of the opening of the special exhibition "Rudo Schwarz an artist in uniform" in the Heraklion Historical Museum. Crete
- May 4th 2010: Press publications in all the island's daily newspapers
- August 2010: Special report in the magazine “Stigmes” Athens about the exhibition
- January 24, 2011: Article in Das Blättchen Berlin Rudo Schwarz - Cretan impressions
- December 5, 2015 Article in "Weinheimer Nachrichten" Exhibition by artist Rudo Schwarz Laudenbach
"A bust remains as a memory"
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Black, Rudo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, draftsman, photographer and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | German fork |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1983 |
| Place of death | Heppenheim |